Thursday, April 20, 2017

(Cairo) After an attack on a checkpoint that killed a policeman near
south Sinai's Saint Catherine's Monastery earlier this week. The Egyptian authorities
have stated that in follow up operations they have killed 19 Islamic terrorists
in air-strikes across the Sinai.

After an attack on a checkpoint that killed a policeman near
south Sinai's Saint Catherine's Monastery earlier this week. The Egyptian authorities
have stated that in follow up operations they have killed 19 Islamic terrorists
in air-strikes across the Sinai.

The operations in conjunction with heightened security before
the Pope visits Egypt next week come after a spate of Islamist violence
targeting Egypt's Christian minority in recent months, the most serious being
the attacks on Churches on Easter Friday which saw over 40 people murdered.